Lancet Series 2017: Maternal Immunization

The Population Council has worked for the last 70 years to inform critical health and development issues through social science, public health, and biomedical research. Their mission is “to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources.” Integral to this mission is to make scholarship more open, accessible, and reusable and to provide the broadest access possible to…

This case study describes Argentina’s structured system of incentive payments to provide health coverage to poor pregnant women and children.  In 2004-7, the Argentinian government and the World Bank joined forces to design Plan Nacer, a program that incorporated Results-Based Financing (RBF)—the linking of financial incentives to improved outcomes—in the budget-transfer mechanism to provincial governments. This case describes the key components of Plan Nacer and its impact on health outcomes and costs. With Plan Nacer,…

These country profiles from Countdown to 2030: Women’s, Children’s & Adolescents’ Health share information about the status of the suite of laws, policies, services, and community support that caregivers need to provide young children with nurturing care. In addition to a summary of demographics and threats to early child development such as maternal mortality and poverty, each country profile assesses the landscape of nurturing care across the dimensions of health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, security and…